Unit outcomes:

Describe what epidemiology is and how it is used in the health professions.

Identify measures of morbidity and mortality used to study health problems.

Interpret common measures of morbidity and mortality, including death, birth, and infection rates.

Course outcomes assessed in this Assignment:

HS311-1:

Interpret epidemiological and health care rates using standardized formulas.

GEL-1.1:

Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

Instructions:

Select two entities (such as two hospitals or two countries). Using credible published data, identify the crude death rate, infant mortality rate and the incidence rate from an infectious disease that is common to both entities. Using these data, compare and contrast the entities and predict the health of its population.

Requirements:

●This paper should have at least one full page, not including the title page or references.

●This paper must follow APA formatting and citation guidelines, including:

○ Title page and Reference page

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Essay should be double-spaced

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Use Times New Roman font, size 12

●All references should come from credible sources.

●Include a highly developed viewpoint.

●Organize your paper with subheadings.

●Free of grammar and spelling errors.

●No evidence of plagiarism.